Triple Crown

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Host Joel McHale zinged an audience full of star athletes at the ESPY Awards, using his monologue to skewer the rich and famous at the show honoring the year's best moments in sports. The actor-comic noted the audience was "all dressed up in the suits you usually wear to your depositions." McHale touched on the frenzied courtship of free-agent center DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers, saying, "And they said there'd never be a black bachelor." Even Triple Crown winner American Pharoah wasn't let off the hook. McHale said the horse "will spend his offseason like any athlete, siring children." Here are some...

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